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Triplet sisters, 93, reunite in western NY

The Associated Press

Posted:
10/02/2013 03:02:44 AM EDT

BATAVIA, N.Y.—If there's an older set of triplets than the former Kirchner sisters, the siblings haven't heard about them.

The 93-year-olds gathered last weekend in western New York for a rare reunion at the home of Catherine Roth of Batavia. She hosted her fellow identical sisters Frances Hornberger of Long Island and Marguerite Miller of Allentown, Pa.

The sisters tell the Daily News of Batavia ( http://bit.ly/16dEWdC) that their mother had been hoping for a boy when they were born in Brooklyn in August 1920.

All three siblings attended William Smith College in Geneva on a scholarship, and all three met their husbands there. When they got married, all three sisters wore the same wedding dress, with each sibling passing it down to the next one in line to get married.